Page 1371 - Week 04 - Thursday, 4 April 2019
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and the need for pharmacies to submit information to the ACT Health Directorate for all controlled medicines dispensed to their patients.
MS CHEYNE: Minister, can you please outline how the government worked with stakeholders to ensure that the implementation of DORA is supported in the ACT?
MS FITZHARRIS: The implementation of DORA demonstrates what can be achieved by bringing together stakeholders from across the ACT healthcare system to develop these types of solutions to support patients right across our community. Working with stakeholders has ensured that DORA is a user-friendly and valuable tool that clinicians want to use and that communications and training materials for health professionals and consumers are appropriately targeted and effective to ensure maximum uptake and outcomes from the system for our community.
ACT Health established a DORA stakeholder engagement group to advise government on DORA’s system features and functionality as well as the successful communications and engagement approach to DORA’s rollout. The group comprised local representatives of the ACT’s peak health professional groups. Without the support of these groups, we would not be seeing the positive interest in, engagement with and early uptake of DORA by local health professionals that we are seeing today.
I take this opportunity to thank all the stakeholders, particularly including the ACT Pharmacy Guild and their membership base and the Capital Health Network, for the invaluable contribution they have made to developing DORA.
While the ACT government remains highly supportive of a national real-time prescription monitoring system, it has taken far too long. A national monitoring system is expected to be implemented later this year. DORA is ready to plug into that system as soon as it is implemented.
ACT Health—SPIRE project
MRS DUNNE: My question is to the Minister for Health and Wellbeing. I refer to an annual reports brief on ACT Health infrastructure projects including the surgical procedures, interventional radiation and emergency building or SPIRE which states:
The 2016 election commitment stated that SPIRE was planned to open in 2022-23. This was prior to any feasibility, planning and early design works being undertaken.
Minister, why did the 2016 election commitment on SPIRE go ahead without any feasibility, planning or design work having been done?
MS FITZHARRIS: We are very proud of the SPIRE commitment, including what it will deliver for Canberra patients and the professionals working at Canberra Health Services. It certainly, as any election commitment—and I believe the costings document indicated this—needs to go through a formal process.
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